Voiced uvular affricate

Voiced uvular affricate
ɢʁ
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The voiced uvular affricate is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound are ⟨ɢ͡ʁ⟩ and ⟨ɢ͜ʁ⟩. The tie bar may be omitted, yielding ⟨ɢʁ⟩.

Features

Features of the voiced uvular affricate:

Occurrence

Uvular

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Akhvakh [example needed]
Ekagi gaati [ɢ͡ʁaːti] 'ten' Velar lateral allophone [ɡ͡ʟ] before back vowels.[1]
Persian Iranian [example needed] Allophone of [ɢ][2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Staroverov, Peter; Tebay, Sören (2019). "Posterior Affricate in Mee and Consonant-Vowel Place Interactions". Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. 7 (2018). doi:10.3765/amp.v7i0.4481.
  2. ^ Nikolaev, Dmitry (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.). Western Farsi sound inventory (EA). Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ^ Stanford Phonology Archive (2019). Moran, Steven; McCloy, Daniel (eds.). Western Farsi sound inventory (SPA). Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.